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amber

[am-ber] / ˈæm bər /
ADJECTIVE
gold-colored
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NOUN
goldish color
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The blue-lit monotony of every day is replaced by warm amber table lamps and dimly lit corners flanked by books on all sides.

From Salon Sep. 7, 2026

Its red-white-and-blue website shows the Statue of Liberty and a person wearing a cowboy hat striding with a partner through amber waves of grain.

From The Wall Street Journal Aug. 14, 2026

It is possible that this could be equalled or even exceeded later this week, with the Met Office issuing an amber extreme heat warning for some parts of England on Thursday.

From BBC Aug. 11, 2026

The UK's Health Security Agency has also issued amber heat health alerts, which cover the whole of England.

From BBC Aug. 11, 2026

It emanated from him like currents of heat, so loud and blistering that without even probing him, the chief mate could sense flashes of pain in his chest, visions of black and amber liquid, shame.

From "The Reader" by Traci Chee

I would swim early in the morning when the water was still or late at night as the sun set, casting stunning ambers and pinks streaks through the sky.

From BBC Mar. 9, 2025

The sunrise ambers and midnight blues of Joshua Cutts’s lighting design illuminate Michael’s states of mind as much as they do time and place.

From New York Times Dec. 5, 2023

The set design by Clint Ramos and Miguel Urbino emphasizes depth of field, its white framework a receptive canvas for Linda Cho’s refined midcentury costumes and the warm ambers of David Weiner’s lighting.

From New York Times Jun. 22, 2023

I won't say a word about mauves and faint ambers and umbras, but I do want to give that country a good word, as it looked that morning to me.

From The Range Dwellers by B. M. Bower

It's the light, I guess, just the same as the audience holds hands when they turn on the ambers with a circular drop for a sunset or something.

From Believe You Me! by Nina Wilcox Putnam




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